RE: `isearch-allow-scroll' - a misnomer and a bad design

[Drew Adams]

> Also, there are plenty of ways to exit isearch other than C-u. I can't
> remember ever using C-u to exit isearch, in fact, and if the prefix
> argument is still applied to any command that _does_ exit 
> isearch,

Yes, it is.

> I see no problem changing the default behavior.

Good to hear.